The Lady in Red?

The My Heart Will Go On theme from the Leonardo di Caprio movie is among a number of songs being barred from marriage ceremonies in the Kerry diocese of the Roman Catholic church.

Also dumped are the Lady in Red and The Wind Beneath my Wings.

Couples in the affected part of south-west Ireland will have to be content with more traditional music, including Ave Maria and Panus (sic) Angelicus.

The message has been spelled out to them in a new set of guidelines from Kerry Catholic authorities.

Things haven’t changed. People still must be saved from their own crassness and desire to make choices that will come back to haunt them.

I grimace everytime I hear Billy Joel’s Just the Way You Are. How many weddings did we attend where that was the ‘touching selection’? A song that he wrote for his first wife. If I had had that song at my wedding, I think it would make me gag (more than it already does) every time I heard it. Even if I were still married.

Oh, well, I think Purcell’s Trumpet Voluntary holds up well. Though there are bad Sundays when singing All Creatures of Our God and King can give me a weird flashback. Then I look at the spousal unit and realize that he doesn’t even recognize a hymn that was sung at his only wedding. Must be a male/female brain thing....